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WAAA! Fabulous, fabulous home pieces! A great way to capture all the memories of a place called home. They have the feel of Victorian stained glass and craftsman style. I adore the colors. And the Minneapolis home -- Ohhhhhhhh, what a cute little house. Love, love the windows and the porch swing! We used to have a porch swing. So wonderful to spend warm summer days gently swaying to and fro. sigh

they were both awesome old homes and neighborhoods! my favorite things about the minneapolis house were the old telephone box in the wall and the ancient bottle of greek liquor inside that box, that apparently every owner had passed down to the next, just as we did when we left. in dallas, it was the porch swing and the cool stained glass. the previous owners gutted, renovated and expanded the house right before we bought it, but they saved those windows. there was a great picture of our house and a story about the renovation in the Life section of USA Today, but damned if i can find it. it's somewhere in these messy boxes.

and sandra don't worry - nothing bad happened at that house!! i had lived in dallas before and was just bored with it, so i kept saying, "next city, please," and that's why i cheerfully left. i'm a restless girl.

Beautiful memory pieces Aimee! I love this idea of consolidating them into a single piece. I've lived in so many homes in my time and each one is full of memories, some good, some not so good and I'd like to capture those. I think you've just inspired me... Yes, you've definitely just inspired me. I feel a list of lists coming on... :)

this is gorgeous, Aimee... what an amazing legacy you could leave for your girls of your memories of these homes... i've been rummaging around some old family photos and documents in the last week or so, and i was thinking how amazing a wall in your home would look with a piece completed and framed of your artwork memories of all of your different homes... how wonderful that would be for them now, and especially for when they grow up!

I must say, an ancient bottle of Greek liquor is preferable to a mummified cat. Did you hear about the family who did some renovation and found a dead cat in the walls? It was put there over a hundred years ago to ward off witches. Poor thing was frozen in this "WTF, omg, let me out!" pose. It had been discovered a few times over the years during various renovations, and each time, the homeowner put it back in the walls.

i love these! they are so great. as a fellow nomade i know that its nice to have a small memory of ones stops.did you ever live outside the us?i like the cheeting trend- was going to post something but it was old... so didn't .NOw I got a license to do so! yeay!happy weekendxo